Fortune – and highly-placed friends – favoured Nicholas Bagenal in the year of 1550.
History
Seraphine, 1850
There were other emigrant ships out of Newry during the Famine which encountered harsh conditions on the high seas.
Abbot Prowte et alia
The principal late 16th century English tactic to destroy the Gaelic clan system was known as ‘surrender and re-grant’. Under it Gaelic leaders would submit ..
Survey 1 of Abbott’s House (?)
The Environment and Heritage Service Survey in Castle Street in December 2000 concluded that of six ‘blocks’ examined, only one (what they refer to as Block 4) was of ‘interest’. This is what they said of it …
Kilkelly, Ireland
It was many years after the events outlined in the following ballad that the box of letters upon which the story is based, was found in an abandoned drawer. The tale was heart-rending:
Molly Maguires
The Molly Maguires originated in
Hannah tragedy
Considering the season of the year, the passage of the Hannah from Newry to
Hannah Sails
The plight of the poor has always proved a fruitful opportunity for unprincipled entrepreneurs to line their own pockets.
By the mid-nineteenth century records of Shipping Intelligence for British ports (including the
EHS Report Shortcomings
We stated earlier that we would look again at the EHS’s report on McCann’s Bakery and specifically on the continuation of its ‘Historical Information’.